ABSTRACT
Laboratory curiosities until the late 1960s, membrane technologies started to enter in an industrial reality with the pioneering work of Loeb and Sourirajan (1963), who developed the first anisotropic membranes, made from cellulose acetate, able to deliver reasonable fluxes and permeabilities for sea water desalination by reverse osmosis. Then, remarkable progress was accomplished as well in the development of more robust membranes and better designed equipment, as in the applications of this ubiquitous family of technologies which includes separation of molecules or particles
3.1 Introduction .................................................................................................... 33 3.2 Definitions.......................................................................................................34 3.3 Membrane Design and Configuration ............................................................34 3.4 Applications of Membrane Technologies for the Production
of Liquid Milks ...............................................................................................36 3.5 Applications of Membrane Technologies for the Separation
of Milk Proteins .............................................................................................. 39 3.6 Applications of Membrane Technologies for the Production of Cheese ........40
